Quite the gathering expected at the 4th annual reunion of the #MackSennett Alumni association, including #JamesFinlayson
Source: San Bernadino Sun-Telegraph, 29 Jul 1951, p. 12 via California Digital Newspaper Collection
#silentfilm

111 years ago:
Katchem Kate
Mabel seems to be working ironing dresses in a dress shop when something catches her attention in a newspaper. Apparently, it is an ad on becoming a detective. Mabel goes rushing off to a Detective school run by Fred Ward.
1912-06-12
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/193846
#KatchemKate #MackSennett #JackPickford #Movies

111 years ago:
Help! Help! (US)
A send-up of Griffith's THE LONELY VILLA and other movies of that sort, such as THE GIRLS AND DADDY, THE LONEDALE OPERATOR and many others, as the heroine, thinking that burglars are trying to break into her home phones her husband at the office, who rushes home.... well, who tries to rush home in h...
1912-04-10
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/193823
#HelpHelp #MackSennett #MabelNormand #AlfredPaget #PreCode #ClassicFilm

111 years ago:
Oh, Those Eyes
Seemingly every man is in love with Gladys (played by Mabel Normand). Wherever she goes, man start following her with much enthusiasm. Two men at the place her father works want to marry her...both send her letters asking for such. She accepts both! Her father finds out and decides to play a trick o...
1912-04-01
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/192268
#OhThoseEyes #MackSennett #ClassicMovies

111 years ago:
Oh, Those Eyes
Seemingly every man is in love with Gladys (played by Mabel Normand). Wherever she goes, man start following her with much enthusiasm. Two men at the place her father works want to marry her...both send her letters asking for such. She accepts both! Her father finds out and decides to play a trick o...
1912-04-01
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/192268
#OhThoseEyes #MackSennett #ClassicMovies

114 years ago:
The Curtain Pole (US)
An upper class drawing room. A gentleman breaks the curtain pole and goes in search of a replacement, but he stops into a pub first. He buys a very long pole, and causes havoc everywhere he passes, accumulating an ever-growing entourage chasing him, until he escapes them through a bit of movie magic...
1909-02-15
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/131085
#TheCurtainPole #MackSennett #PreCode #ClassicFilm #ClassicMovies #Movies #Film